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From: Jeremy Abbott <jkbullfrog@comcast.net>
To: "Conway S. Smith" <beolach@comcast.net>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aterm pseudo transparancy tint
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:33:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41EE3784.7060506@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41EE8049.9090507@comcast.net>

Conway S. Smith wrote:

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>>Jeremy Abbott wrote:
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>>>Does anyone know if there is a way to set the tint color of an aterm 
>>>to be random?  Right now I am executing the following:
>>>
>>>aterm -tr -tint blue -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4
>>>
>>>I know I can write a script to randomize the color if I need to, I'm 
>>>just not sure how to implement it with the -tint switch.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Jeremy Abbott
>>>jkbullfrog@comcast.net
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>It just occured to me that I can do this by writing a script to randomly 
>>choose from a list of aterm calls, rather than just randomizing the tint 
>>color.  I can do this if need be, but am still curious if just the tint 
>>color by itself can be randomized.
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>>Jeremy Abbott
>>jkbullfrog@comcast.net
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>Make your script echo the randomly selected color on stdout, and
>surround it with back-quotes, like so:
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>aterm -tr -tint `random_color.sh` -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4
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>HTH,
>Conway S. Smith
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Thanks, I believe that will do the trick.

Jeremy Abbott
jkbullfrog@comcast.net

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-19 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-18 13:48 aterm pseudo transparancy tint Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-18 14:01 ` Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-19 15:44   ` Conway S. Smith
2005-01-19 10:33     ` Jeremy Abbott [this message]

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